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The Bronx episode with the Amish boy, the glaucoma episode that immediately follows it, and a handful of moments with The Quarrymen, who are a good concept and decently designed, but are also a bit of a letdown after 65 episodes of Goliath and co. fighting mythological figures and brainwashed clones. It doesn’t get unwatchable. It does get preachy.
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Finally saw The Boss Baby (not that I was clamoring for it or anything). It was pretty harmless, all things considered. Sort of a garbage script elevated by a team that was actually pretty good with visual storytelling. But good God does the thing drag. Like “Oh we’re at the climactic chase...oh no there’s an hour left, how is there an hour left?”
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K. Waste posted:Hot take: Halloween is Grinch Night > How the Grinch Stole Christmas "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" is enough reason for me to say that this is BS
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DC Murderverse posted:"You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" is enough reason for me to say that this is BS Generically speaking, the music is completely different. "You're a Mean One" is a straightforward, jazzy novelty pop song. The music of Halloween is Grinch Night is more influenced by psychedelic, progressive, and experimental music. It's basically just slightly closer to outsider music than Frank Zappa, Henry Cow, or Moondog. edit: Barbie and the Rockers is still the cream of the trash crop, but Barbie: Princess Charm School is easily the most technically impressive of the Barbie movies I've seen. K. Waste fucked around with this message at 20:18 on Dec 26, 2017 |
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Never read the Ferdinand book, watched the movie. Kind of a schizophrenic climax there. I mean obviously the movie wasn’t gonna end with the matador killing Ferdinand an slicing off his ears and tail or Ferdinand goring the toreador through the gut/rectum but it went from the obvious “Ferdinand turns the tables and bullfights the toreador to rob him of his ego and dignity” to “the toreador is about to kill Ferdinand but then the audience point their thumbs down to spare him like in the Roman Coliseum” Still it was a lot of fun and the latin american dub of the german horses was hilarious
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K. Waste posted:Barbie and the Rockers is still the cream of the trash crop, but Barbie: Princess Charm School is easily the most technically impressive of the Barbie movies I've seen. Is there such a thing as a good Barbie movie?
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paradoxGentleman posted:Is there such a thing as a good Barbie movie? Does Toy Story 3 count
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paradoxGentleman posted:Is there such a thing as a good Barbie movie? Technically speaking, yes. That's Barbie: Princess Charm School, a very well made, but reactionary animated film that just happens to have a relatively small budget. The catch with Barbie films is that most of them are merely mediocre, whereas what you actually want is rarified, crass commercialism, Barbie as anti-Christ. But contemporary films are much more homogenized, Barbie now has to perform the dual role of being an infallible 'every girl' but also an independent and progressive outsider, the stories are generic morality plays and fairy tales, the only real draw is the ugliness of the animation and music.
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paradoxGentleman posted:Is there such a thing as a good Barbie movie? Probably, the Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures had some pretty good moments. See, if movies like "Cinderella 3: A Twist in Time" and "The Lego Batman Movie" have taught me anything it's this: talented people can make a good movie out of any concept no matter how ridiculous. I mean it doesn't always happen, but it can.
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Pixeltendo posted:Does Toy Story 3 count They said GOOD movies.
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World of Tomorrow Episode 2 is available to rent on Vimeo for about 5 bucks and everyone needs to spend their Christmas money on it right now.
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We've been discussing the Tom & Jerry adaptation of Willy Wonka over the the "Who greenlighted?" thread and I went to the bother of giffing some shots so we could compare the original to the animated version:quote:I'm pretty sure they projected and traced over the original film's frames for most of the adapted scenes instead of drawing them from scratch using animation models Oh man, we already knew that the film was ugly as hell if you looked at individual frames but it's somehow even uglier and more of an insult to the original if you compare the lifted sequences
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I still need to watch that godforsaken thing. I must.
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so long as you take proper safety precautions and don't watch it sober
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I'm also torn over whether I want to do it as a double feature with the original or not.
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Waffleman_ posted:I'm also torn over whether I want to do it as a double feature with the original or not. We're worried about you and your mental health, this sounds like a cry for help
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This is the first I've heard about it and I'm extremely confused by the existence of that thing.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:We're worried about you and your mental health, this sounds like a cry for help It haunts me.
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I saw Coco and it was fine.
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I can state with total conviction that watching Barbie movies is more rewarding than slogging through the Tom & Jerry back catalogue. There are always gems here and there, but T&J being garbage is not a recent thing, these roots go deep.
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Those later era eastern european animated T&J episodes are a trip (and also terrible).
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Waffleman_ posted:I'm also torn over whether I want to do it as a double feature with the original or not. That's like watching the first Silent Night Deadly Night before watching Silent Night Deadly Night 2.
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K. Waste posted:I can state with total conviction that watching Barbie movies is more rewarding than slogging through the Tom & Jerry back catalogue. There are always gems here and there, but T&J being garbage is not a recent thing, these roots go deep. There has been nothing of value made of the Tom and Jerry franchise since at least the 70s.
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Waffleman_ posted:There has been nothing of value made of the Tom and Jerry franchise since at least the 70s. I think the Tom And Jerry Movie might be valuable for historical/educational purposes, like Birth Of A Nation. It's a pretty good example of how people hosed up animated movies in the time period it was made in.
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Waffleman_ posted:I'm also torn over whether I want to do it as a double feature with the original or not. Set up 2 TV's, then start the movies at the same time.
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Flaccid Trip posted:Set up 2 TV's, then start the movies at the same time. I'll also pull up Dark Side on my Google Home.
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I watched Boss Baby a couple nights ago. That movie sueprisingly had some very nice visuals.
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Roth posted:I watched Boss Baby a couple nights ago. Baby boss got weirdly made the poster of everything wrong with the whole industry when it's absolutely totally fine in every way and neither very good or very bad.
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I gotta say while I'm super excited for a new Wreck-It Ralph movie, I wish it wasn't called "Ralph breaks the internet". Wreck-It Ralph 2 would've been perfectly fine
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:Baby boss got weirdly made the poster of everything wrong with the whole industry when it's absolutely totally fine in every way and neither very good or very bad. The standard does not exist so that it can be enforced. The standard exists so that we can say there is a standard. Boss Baby was 'DreamWorks face' distilled, so it was a prime candidate for 'who greenlighted this poo poo?!' What's being avoided is exactly that it's unremarkable, that it would actually be better if it were exceptionally bad, because the worst sin is mediocrity.
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https://youtu.be/186eRogdnCg Whats this Bilal movie?
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The quality of the movie doesn't matter because the mere sight of a smug business suit wearing baby is inherently revolting. I hate him with my life.
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So we getting a new thread for 2018 or should someone contact a mod about changing the title of this one?
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:Baby boss got weirdly made the poster of everything wrong with the whole industry when it's absolutely totally fine in every way and neither very good or very bad. Boss Baby is easier to find funny tweet-length ways to dunk on than, like, Emoji Movie, the existence of which is simply depressing
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Sinners Sandwich posted:https://youtu.be/186eRogdnCg It's a movie made in Saudi Arabia about the life of Bilal ibn Rabah, one of the Sahabah (companions) of the prophet Muhammad.
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Macaluso posted:I gotta say while I'm super excited for a new Wreck-It Ralph movie, I wish it wasn't called "Ralph breaks the internet". Wreck-It Ralph 2 would've been perfectly fine Should of been Super Wreck it Ralph, but it seems the movie is going to be less about video games then it appears.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:It's a movie made in Saudi Arabia about the life of Bilal ibn Rabah, one of the Sahabah (companions) of the prophet Muhammad. Is it good?
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Roth posted:I watched Boss Baby a couple nights ago. My working theory is someone started to make a dialogue-free/lite short film based off the book, and then a studio note came in saying “Make it 2 hours and with Alec Baldwin”.
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